officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Bjølsen neighborhood
surface form: Bjølsen
Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tataskweyak Cree Nation Cree NERFINISHED
Tataskweyak Cree Nation English
Venanson French
City of Morelia Spanish
Barranquitas, Puerto Rico Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barranquitas, Puerto Rico English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ciempozuelos Spanish
Humanes de Madrid Spanish
Humanes Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nyeri County English
Nyeri County Swahili NERFINISHED
Goldman Environmental Prize English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
municipality of Nagarote
surface form: Nagarote
Spanish
municipality of El Jicaral
surface form: El Jicaral
Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
municipality of Santa Rosa del Peñón
surface form: Santa Rosa del Peñón
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shannon Airport Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shannon Airport Authority Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ambra Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Heiderhof German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pécsvárad Hungarian
Coleman Township English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coleman Township French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Miguel Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Verano Cemetery Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wormhout French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cosamaloapan Spanish
Ayuntamiento de Albacete Spanish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Law Society of Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Law Society of Ontario French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tuhelj Croatian NERFINISHED
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (as part of SR Croatia)
surface form: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian NERFINISHED
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (as part of SR Croatia)
surface form: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Slovene
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (as part of SR Croatia)
surface form: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Macedonian
Nemours, France
surface form: Nemours
French
Os de Balaguer Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Os de Balaguer Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Basco Filipino NERFINISHED
Basco English
Sabtang Filipino
Sabtang English
Uyugan Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uyugan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Udi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ezeagu English language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aninri English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Igbo-Etiti English language
Yuzhno-Kurilsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gazipur District Bengali
Impruneta Italian